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oosik · 09-28-2002, 07:14 PM

I'm kind of at wit's end with the amount of errors and problems and I'm guessing I'm going to have to just reformat and reinstall.

Here's my sob story for those that want ot pretend to care:

OS - WinXP SP1

NAV - during live update, manually executed, the NAV engine won't update always fails. I've tried every everything posted on Symantecs website, to no avail. I even posted on the symantec's website board and their live help is even stumped.

BSOD's - have had about 5 of them in the past week all different, at different times during different programs.

Knowing things were going awry, I decided to start backing up everything for he inevitable. Well Roxio's DirectCD is known to NOT play well with WinXP, so I try Neros InCD. Gets part of the way through of copying to a CDRW and then get some failure and it never copies everything. Tells me the disc(CDRW) is write-protected all of a sudden. Have to reboot or pop the cd out then back in to clear. So taht's not working as it should.

Tried repartitioning with Partition Magic 8.0, no go. Get errors saying the file name system is something or other.

Tried imaging with Drive Image, that also gives me errors so I can't image anything.

Tried Norton Ghost, again, failed with BSOD.

Shutdowns and startups and pretty darn slow unable to resolve.

Tried going back to a system restore point long before anything like this came up, still no joy!

Believe it or not, most everything else seems to work, but obviously there are issues that can't be resolved. Heck if I can't even back things up to CDRW properly, then what do i do.

I'm not sure if it's a hardware issue or driver issue or even how to resolve if it's either. I have gone through a couple of tweak guides that are out there. But I know I didn't disable things I knew were going to cause issues. And those things I wasn't 100% sure about I didn't change anyway.

Anyway, that's my rant. Not sure when i'll actually get to redoing everything; still figuring out the best way to go about it without losing a whole lot.

09-28-2002, 07:14 PM	#1
oosik Member (9 bit) Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Mobile, AL Posts: 315	To reinstall or not to reinstall.......... BUKU issues! I'm kind of at wit's end with the amount of errors and problems and I'm guessing I'm going to have to just reformat and reinstall. Here's my sob story for those that want ot pretend to care: OS - WinXP SP1 NAV - during live update, manually executed, the NAV engine won't update always fails. I've tried every everything posted on Symantecs website, to no avail. I even posted on the symantec's website board and their live help is even stumped. BSOD's - have had about 5 of them in the past week all different, at different times during different programs. Knowing things were going awry, I decided to start backing up everything for he inevitable. Well Roxio's DirectCD is known to NOT play well with WinXP, so I try Neros InCD. Gets part of the way through of copying to a CDRW and then get some failure and it never copies everything. Tells me the disc(CDRW) is write-protected all of a sudden. Have to reboot or pop the cd out then back in to clear. So taht's not working as it should. Tried repartitioning with Partition Magic 8.0, no go. Get errors saying the file name system is something or other. Tried imaging with Drive Image, that also gives me errors so I can't image anything. Tried Norton Ghost, again, failed with BSOD. Shutdowns and startups and pretty darn slow unable to resolve. Tried going back to a system restore point long before anything like this came up, still no joy! Believe it or not, most everything else seems to work, but obviously there are issues that can't be resolved. Heck if I can't even back things up to CDRW properly, then what do i do. I'm not sure if it's a hardware issue or driver issue or even how to resolve if it's either. I have gone through a couple of tweak guides that are out there. But I know I didn't disable things I knew were going to cause issues. And those things I wasn't 100% sure about I didn't change anyway. Anyway, that's my rant. Not sure when i'll actually get to redoing everything; still figuring out the best way to go about it without losing a whole lot.